Founding Muppets sign the Constitution
The Constitution on Muppet Babies
One of the Babies in The Muppet Show Comic Book #5 exhibits anti-prohibition tendencies
The Constitution of the United States of America is one of the founding documents, determining how the nation's government is structured, the powers of each branch (including those of the President of the United States), and the states' powers and relationship to the federal government. While the Constitution went into effect in 1789, the Bill of Rights was added in 1791 (offering specific freedoms, protections, and limitations) and additional constitutional amendments have been added (and sometimes repealed) since then.
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- A Wilkins Coffee commercial has Wontkins questioning if Wilkins, with his fourth cup of Wilkins Coffee, has had enough. Wilkins refuses to answer, a typical invocation of the Fifth Amendment ("...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself"). Wilkins answers he *is* taking the Fifth, but inevitably it's a fifth cup of coffee.
- The signing of the Constitution in 1787 is depicted for the month of September in The Sesame Street 1976 Calendar.
- The same calendar's August page depicts a campaign for women's suffrage (the right to vote), while the text below specifies the ratification of the 19th Amendment which protected that right.
- Big Bird quotes the preamble ("We the People") when trying to figure out what Luis is writing on a sign in Episode 0967 of Sesame Street; it turns out to be "wet paint."
- "Oscar's Bill of Gripes" parodies the Bill of Rights and includes specific references to the constitutional rights of Grouches.
- The second season Muppet Babies episode "Out-of-This-World History" depicts the Constitution during a Revolutionary war themed song.
- The Palisades action figure of Sam the Eagle, in keeping with his staunch devotion to the United States, includes a plastic parchment replica of the US Constitution as an accessory.
- A short "Do Not Touch" button video on the Muppets' Disney Xtreme Digital channel page had Fozzie Bear doing an impression of the Second Amendment ("...the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed") which in this case means showing his own bear arms.
- The "Stars and Stripes Forever" viral video shows Sam the Eagle attempting a recitation of the preamble of the Constitution.
- When Bobby Benson's Baby Band perform the 1920s/30s style number "The Girl with the Goo Goo Eyes" in The Muppet Show Comic Book Issue #5, the baby in the title role holds a mug saying "Repeal the 18th" (the 18th Amendment establishing Prohibition was ratified in 1919 but repealed by the 21st Amendment in 1933).